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  • Megan's 25 days of festive costumes

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hello, I’m Megan and for those who don’t know me I work for Macmillan in the Fundraising Support Centre. It’s a lively, buzzing office most of the time anyway but for the past few weeks something extra wacky’s been going on – there’s been someone sat at their desk in festive fancy dress every single day. That someone is me and I’m here to tell you about my 25 days of festive costumes fundraising challenge and why I…

  • Rebecca goes sober

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    FormerMember

    Hi, I’m Rebecca. Some of you might remember me from when I was Becca – Admin, but for those of you who don’t I’m an editor in the Macmillan digital team. I’m also a sober hero, because for the whole of October, I didn’t touch a drop of alcohol.* 

    *Full disclosure: I had one golden ticket for my friend’s wedding, which meant that for a donation of £15 I was allowed to have a cheeky…

  • Taste4danger’s year of fundraising – update

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    FormerMember

    When Online Community member Taste4danger was diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma, she banded together with family and friends to organise an amazing year of fundraising events for Macmillan. The group are calling themselves World War C.  

    Back in March, Taste4danger talked to us about the events they were planning, and how she and her friends had done a 10k run. 

    Now, we’ve caught up with her again, to hear how the year’s…

  • Raising money and supporting others in my local community

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    FormerMember

    I'm Lynda, otherwise known as Winston on the Macmillan site. I was on here almost daily last year, I can't praise this website enough!  

    I am six months post breast cancer treatment and I have set up a charity called Cancer Support East Kent. We have activities twice a month in the form of coffee afternoons, and "Ladies that Lunch" events. 

    On Monday 23 September at 11am our friends at the local pub…

  • Annabel's Angels - fundraising in memory of Annie40

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    FormerMember

    Hello everyone, may I introduce ‘Annabel’s Angels’ to those of you, who haven’t heard of us, and update you all on what has been happening and what is in the pipeline. 

    Annabel, or ‘Annie40’ as she was to us in ‘Macland’, was a very active participant  on the breast cancer group of the Online Community during last year. She connected beautifully and sensitively with women…